Lopha costata

Lopha costata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreidae

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 5 of 64 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 58 of 64 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 64 occurrencesLate Jurassic201–199 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–195 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–194 Mya — about 1 occurrence194–192 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 15 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 32 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 8 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192.9 Mya165.3 Mya201 Mya148 Mya

64 occurrences of Lopha costata on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

64 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

11 formations

Calcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.64°N, 4.73°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.85°N, 4.31°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.23°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.76°N, 4.45°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.85°N, 4.16°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.78°N, 4.40°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.85°N, 4.16°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.78°N, 4.40°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.70°N, 4.42°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.64°N, 4.73°EOolithe miliaire — 49.84°N, 4.33°EOolithe miliaire — 49.71°N, 4.60°EOolithe miliaire — 49.92°N, 4.08°EOolithe miliaire — 49.78°N, 4.40°EOolithe miliaire — 49.60°N, 4.96°EOolithe miliaire — 49.68°N, 4.66°EAberhan Sinemur — 33.47°S, 70.75°WRukesa Shales — 4.05°N, 41.02°EWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WBihen Limestone — 10.25°N, 45.12°EOolith miliaire — 49.67°N, 4.73°E

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The named rock units Lopha costata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lopha costata and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Lopha costata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

234 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Lopha costata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

8 references

Each of the 64 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lopha costata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Lopha costata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLopha through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1825)